AWS News Blog

I was super-double-extra busy last week and did not have time to assemble the Week in Review as usual. I’m playing catch-up now! Monday November 30 We announced an AWS Certification Update – ISO 27017. The AWS Big Data Blog announced that Big Data AWS Training Course Gets Big Update. Cloudyn shared Top 7 Cloud […]

I would like to extend a warm welcome to the newest AWS Community Heroes: Jarrod Levitan Keith Yau Boyan Dimitrov Austen Collins Teri Radichel The Heroes share their enthusiasm for AWS via social media, blogs, events, user groups, and workshops. Let’s take a look at their bios to learn more. Jarrod Levitan Jarrod is the […]

I registered my first domain name almost 20 years ago! Back then, the mapping from a domain name to a server was simple and straightforward. Load balancers, geographic redundancy, website monitoring, cloud computing, and the like had not yet entered the scene. The mapping was always from a domain name to a single, unchanging IP […]

Many AWS customers and partners have been asking for a programmatic way to access prices for AWS services. This information can be used in several ways. Some potential customers are evaluating the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of moving their on-premises workloads to the cloud and want to “do the math.” Current customers and partners would like […]

When I discuss AWS with enterprise customers, they often ask me how they can take advantage of their existing investments in on-premises virtualization. They want to take advantage of their existing “golden” images and the development, deployment, and certification processes that go along with them. Fortunately, I am able to tell them about two separate […]

AWS Direct Connect makes it easy for you to create a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS. This private connectivity can reduce your network costs, increase data transfer throughput, and provide a more consistent experience than a shared Internet-based connection. I am pleased to be able to announce that we have opened up […]

The AWS Directory Service allows you to use your existing corporate identities to access AWS services and to simplify cloud-based deployment of Microsoft Windows and Linux applications that are dependent on the availability of a directory. We launched the service last year with support for two types of directories (AD Connector and Simple AD); see […]

You can use Auto Scaling to scale a collection of EC2 instances up and down based on a set of conditions that you define. Scaling out helps you to maintain the desired level of performance as demand for processing power increases; scaling in reduces costs during quiet periods. Today we are giving you additional control […]